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You would have had to completely avoid any and all news not to have noticed that Columbus Short had been behaving erratically for the past year or so. From the public fights, domestic abuse charges and other weird interactions, it was clear something was going on. And recently, in an interview with “Access Hollywood,” the former “Scandal” actor confirmed that he was actually struggling with a drug addiction. See what he had to say about it in these excerpts and then watch the video below.

“Let me just be– I’ll be candid. I was struggling with drugs. I had a lot on my plate and was using unhealthy ways to kind of self medicate to deal with a lot of heavy stuff in my life.”

What kind of drugs?

The real drugs. I did cocaine. I was doing cocaine and drinking a lot and trying to balance a 16-hour work schedule a day and a family. I lost myself back there.

Did Shonda know?

She did and if we’re going to be fully transparent they protected me and they held me down. And that was one of the real reasons. They just wanted me to get my stuff together. And sometimes the bottom has to get dropped out for you to really get it. So I moved to Atlanta and I’ve been living there for the last five and a half months and it’s been life changing.

Why drugs?

It was numbing stuff. I was going through a lot. Going through a lot in my marriage. I had a lot of tragic loss. Last year, one of my best friends died, he killed himself. Lee Thompson Young. And that kind of started a spiral. I found out while I was on set. It really just took my legs out from under me.

How he’s getting better

First of all I think when anybody is dealing with drugs or alcohol, you have to change your environment period. So I had to move. And my therapy really was working on my album. Music changes things, period.

The impact

You got to think at the end it didn’t just affect me or my home. It’s affected Shonda, Kerry, my kids, my grandmother, my family, my church family. People care when people are going through things. And people forget that we’re human.

A judge demanded the Columbus stay in California because of all the legal trouble. Will he be able to live and work in L.A. without succumbing to his old problems?

I used to come back in to L.A. for these court dates and I would drive through the city and I’d see these triggers, real triggers. Just memories, places. It had to take a good five months, a good five or six months for me to get strong enough so I could come back to L.A. and really do what I have to do.

Admission can be cathartic. It also helps others to hold you accountable, so props to Columbus for being honest enough and brave enough to admit this. We’re hoping and praying that he’s gotten the help he needs to stay on the right track. You can watch the whole interview, including the part where he runs off stage at the end in the video, in celebration, below.

Later in that same interview, Columbus talked about repairing his image in the public eye. You can watch that interview too.

This certainly isn’t the first time we’ve heard claims or seen evidence suggesting that Joseline is using. Her “husband” Stevie J, even tested positive for cocaine when he was arrested for back child support.

But at this point people are starting to worry about Joseline’s safety as well as the safety of those around her.

The source told Bossip bluntly, “They need to send her a$$ to rehab! Having her film anything else says to Tammy, Althea and Mimi that it’s okay for her to put hands on them. She doesn’t get to act up just because she’s been tootin'”

The source said she’s watched Joseline get high on several occasions but doesn’t know whether or not she’s done so on the set of “Love and Hip Hop Atlanta.”

“I wouldn’t be surprised if she called her connect to get high right before shooting scenes, but that set is closed once the cameras start rolling and no one can come on set.”

The source said that Joseline is not only a threat to herself but to Stevie as well.

“I’m definitely concerned she might take it too far and kill him. Not necessarily on purpose, but Joseline is uncontrollable when she’s high. Who knows what might trigger her to pick up a weapon and use it.”

“She needs help and if Mona wanted to do the decent thing she would require her to go to rehab before doing any more filming. Mona created that monster.”

This isn’t an unusual suggestion. Tammy suggested that she wouldn’t be taking part in this show until they started requiring drug tests.

Mona always says their show doesn’t promote violence but that certainly hasn’t been the case in the past. And if the reunion is going to be as bad as the rumors suggest it’s still not true.

But the question is, should Mona require or ask Joseline to take a drug test? Does Mona allowing her to keep working on the show pose a danger to the cast members or somehow suggest that Mona condones the crazy behavior because it increases ratings?

At this point, I can’t think of a reason why she shouldn’t.

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Over the years we have seen tons of our favorite celebrities arrested for some of the silliest reasons. Ranging from reckless behavior to nudity, celebrities just can’t seem to stay out of trouble. However, there’s one particular recreation stars just cant seem to leave alone, smoking trees! Check out this list of celebrities arrested for possession of the green stuff.

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Over the weekend, we reported that Conrad Murray claimed, once again, that he didn’t kill Michael Jackson, that Michael accidentally killed himself. Murray has been saying this for years now. But this particular interview with The Mail, Murray had faaaaaar more than that to say. In the lengthy interview, Murray attempts to “clear” his name by describing the friendship he and Michael shared. And because the two were so close for the icon’s final years and Michael trusted him, he was privy to some of the most intimate details of Jackson’s life. And I do mean in-tim-ate. This interview answers many of the questions we’ve had about Michael Jackson for decades now, including why he was so adamant about bleaching his skin, the biology of his children, his sexuality and the abuse Jackson had suffered at the hands of his family and others he had once trusted. You can check out some of the highlights below.

Michael’s drug use

Murray says that when he initially went to work for Michael in 2006, he was already using propofol. When he came to his home to help him prepare for his comeback tour, he realized that Michael had a personal stash of the drug which Murray did not supply.

He told me there were doctors in Germany that gave it to him. I didn’t agree with this at all, but Michael wasn’t the kind of man you can say no to. He would always find a way.

So I acquired propofol and gave it to him over a two-and-a-half month period as I weaned him off it, which I finally achieved three days before he died.

I would never have recommended propofol to Michael.

But when I got there he was on it – he called it “milk” – and he needed to get off it. I wanted to help my friend.

How he and Michael were able to develop such a close friendship.

He liked me because I wasn’t starstruck. The children loved me. We shared similar backgrounds.

He had a very unhappy childhood and was beaten and abused by his father. I came from poverty and didn’t meet my father until I was 25. We were both forgotten little boys.

Michael had a lot of lingering pain. He would sing the song The Little Boy Who Santa Claus Forgot to me and say, ‘That’s our song.’

I protected him. I am only speaking now because I have been unfairly vilified.

He told me he believed he had been sexually assaulted by one doctor while he had been under sedation. You name it, he had experienced it.

The prediction Michael made that came true in a very tragic way.

You know, for the rest of your life and my life our names will become inseparable.

I asked him, “Michael, what do you mean?” and he smiled and said, I am clairvoyant.

Skin bleaching

Murray said Michael craved porcelain skin and he helped apply the cream he used. He rubbed it on Jackson’s back.

He transformed himself because he wanted to obscure where he came from. He wanted to look different from his family. He wanted porcelain, flawless skin. Those were his words.

More quotes about Michael’s children, his sexuality and the plastic nose on the following pages.

There is really something to be said for knowing when to humble yourself and be quiet. It is clear, however, that Conrad Murray has not learned that lesson.

In his first interview since being released from prison, Conrad Murray opens up to The Daily Mail about life with Michael Jackson. He says things got very crazy towards the end, but he was not responsible:

“He was in crisis at the end of his life, filled with panic and misery … By the end, Michael Jackson was a broken man. I tried to protect him but instead I was brought down with him.”

Murray says MJ was so paranoid that he wouldn’t allow housekeepers to clean his underwear because he thought they would sell them. Yes, well, drugs will make you think a lot of things that would rarely cross your mind if you were sober.

Murray says that he was only trying to protect Michael but was taken down with him. In fact, he says they were very close friends. How close, ask?

I held his private part every night to fit a catheter because he was incontinent at night.”

You know, the only real truth is that no one will ever know what really happened. It’s no secret that Michael had bouts of paranoia. But we also know that Conrad Murray isn’t the most trustworthy person.

No matter the “truth,” it is about time for everyone to stop doing interviews about this and keep whatever they know to themselves.

Naomi Campbell is usually only in the media for two things: (1) She’s gotten really upset and reacted in the same vain or (2) she’s giving us catwalk fever.

The supermodel appeared on Britain’s The Jonathan Ross Show in a long flowing gown and in a seemingly great mood, she asked, “So should I sit or should I lay?”

As she discussed her role as mentor on The Face and how personal she takes it when one of her mentees is eliminated, Ross led her directly into a conversation about her anger issues. Campbell said:

“I think I made the name anger management famous. Anger is an emotion. There’s things I had to deal with it like us all. How we deal with it…”

As we know, Naomi is just as famous for throwing phones and punches at assistants and anyone else who makes her extremely angry.

She also discussed her drug addiction and how she’s been able to overcome it:

“I’ve enjoyed my life. I’m happy where I am today. I live in the day. I stay in my day and I’m happy. I don’t want to go back. I think everyone comes to their conclusion no matter what it is that you’re addicted to. You can be addicted to work. All it is in an escapism. For me, I came to my realization at 29 that I didn’t like the way I was. And that was it. “

Campbell says everyday is a work in progress and she fights her urge to smoke daily (she wears a patch).

Later in the interview, Campbell, who was hilarious during the interview, went on to talk about “finding the one” and settling down:

“I kind of did settle down, just not the right person. This is my life and I’m happy. I’m not settling for nothing that’s not worth me.”

Naomi Campbell added that she doesn’t approach men – ever – and when it comes to sex, it takes a”looooong” time before that happens.

I actually loved the interview. Naomi Campbell seems to be in such a great place right now and it looks like her anger management classes have done a world of good.

Check out Naomi Campbell’s interview on The Jonathan RossShowon the next page!

TMZ, the media outlet who has been the forerunner in reporting all the recent dirt associated with Lamar Odom and his alleged drug use, have reported that on Tuesday, Lamar Odom tested negative for drugs.

According to TMZ, and only TMZ at this point, Lamar was set to fly to New York today to meet with leaders of several basketball teams with proof that he’s clean and sober. TMZ sources have confirmed that on Tuesday Lamar underwent blood and urine tests to prove he hasn’t been using. Other sources say that this lines up with Lamar’s behavior when he and Khloe reunited as they went to visit the Kardashian household on Tuesday as well. Lamar was said to have been lucid, showing no signs of being under the influence.

Lamar was supposed to meet with several teams to discuss the possibility of him playing for them, with the proof that he was sober. He was also there to visit with his family and get away from the negative energy. But in a weird twist of events became “uneasy” when he learned that TMZ had leaked the news of his visit. He has yet to reschedule.

This whole thing is hella weird ya’ll. For weeks Lamar has been on drugs, been in rehab, on the verge of divorce with his wife and more. Now, all of a sudden he’s clean? He and Khloe are riding around together and he’s supposed to be meeting with basketball teams?

What the hell is going on?!

And then to top it all off, Lamar who’s been without a team for too long now, decides to cancel his meetings because TMZ reported the story? This is all types of backwards. I have to tell you, I don’t believe any of it. I would say that I’ll listen when Lamar finally gives a definitive answer. But right now, I don’t know what’s up.

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Let it be known that although Kim Kardashian gets the most shine, Khloe Kardashian is more of a “fan favorite.” Yes, I include myself in that so this is unfortunate news, if true.

TMZ is reporting that Khloe has gone into the “for better or worse, in sickness and in health” part of the vows in an attempt to save her husband from himself. Allegedly, Lamar Odom has been dealing with a serious drug habit for the better part of two years and Khloe is taking drastic measures to help him go into recovery.

Initially, Khloe allegedly convinced Lamar to go admit himself into a drug rehab center last year but he wasn’t into the idea at all. She had private investigators and security guards stick around the facility to make sure he didn’t leave. He stayed for three weeks and upon release, was able to stay healthy enough to play during the NBA season with the Los Angeles Clippers.

Unfortunately, according to TMZ sources, that wasn’t enough and once the season was over, he went back to recreational drugs.

More recently, there’s apparently been an intervention involving Lamar and the entire family asking him to go get help, but he declined. TMZ states that after he declined to go to rehab after the intervention, Khloe asked Lamar to leave the home.

Sad indeed. Lamar Odom did not grow up with his father in his life because his dad was a heroin addict for many years. During the season Khloe and Lamar’s show aired, Lamar was shown trying to repair his relationship with his father. Hopefully, he isn’t going down the same path.

Odom has been married for four years to Khloe and has two children from a previous relationship. If these reports are true, we hope he gets better to save himself and also to be around for his family.

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In the world of professional sports, having a competitive edge over an opponent could be the difference between winning, losing and millions of dollars in endorsement deals. These athletes risked it all and put their careers on the line when they were caught taking banned substances.

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Tyson Gay

One of the fastest sprinters in the world, Tyson Gay went into the 2012 Olympics in London and ran away with his first medal. However, a year later his reputation was tarnished after he tested positive for a banned substance. Gay, the American 100-meter record holder, lost his endorsement deal with Adidas as a result. “I don’t have a sabotage story. I don’t have any lies. I don’t have anything to say to make this seem like it was a mistake or it was on USADA’s hands, someone playing games,” said Gay as he fought back sobs during his explanation. “I don’t have any of those stories. I basically put my trust in someone and I was let down.”

Lenethia Leakes is back in the news. Having recently announced her re-marriage to husband Greg Leakes, she has also taken very strict precautions in ensuring all goes smoothly during the ceremony.

According to RadarOnline.com, Leakes is forcing all wedding attendees to sign a confidentiality agreement, promising an exhausting list of things to attend, including but not limited to:

“I will not be under the influence of any medication or drugs that might impair my physical or mental ability to engage in the Activity or that might impair my judgment while engaging in the Activity…”

“I represent and warrant that I gave nothing of value nor did I agree to give anything of value to anyone so I could be in the program…”

There is also a pretty weird demand from guests who are considering a career in politics, asking them to promise that they are, “not currently and during one (1) year from today do not intend to be a candidate for public office.”

With all of the drama that usually surrounds “The Real Housewives” star on the show, we can totally empathize and understand taking preventative measures to ensure a beautiful wedding ceremony. No one wants their wedding to turn into a circus. But we think this might be just a bit too much, NeNe. Why not just invite close trustworthy friends and family instead of dealing with this hassle — and having all of your reality TV friends in the ceremony? It seems that this wedding might be very dull one if anyone shows up at all.

Do you think NeNe’s confidentiality agreement is over-the-top or spot on?